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Hadassah, The Women's Zionist Organization of America, Inc., commits to combating online antisemitism and misogyny in all its forms. As the largest women's Zionist and Jewish women's organization in the US, Hadassah recognizes that Jewish women have been experiencing a distinct and intense form of online hatred, where antisemitism and misogyny converge to silence, threaten and isolate Jewish women in digital spaces and beyond.
In an increasingly online world, social media platforms and online forums have seen growing antisemitic and anti-Zionist hatred. Following the Hamas terrorist attacks on October 7, 2023, online antisemitism surged dramatically, with hate speech increasingly targeting Jews and Zionists simply for their identities, beliefs and support for Israel. Jewish women, in particular, report being targeted with sexualized harassment, coordinated pile-on campaigns, threatening AI-generated content and conspiracy-driven smears that merge antisemitic tropes with misogynist rhetoric.
Multiple studies, including Hadassah’s own 2024 report “From Fear to Resilience: Women Facing Antisemitism,” present the stark reality that Jewish women increasingly feel afraid and isolated and, as a result, are concealing their identities. Hadassah found that over half the Jewish women surveyed hid their Jewish identity in some way and over 64 percent reported that their life was impacted by antisemitism. A 2025 survey by the American Jewish Committee (AJC) found that 50 percent of Jewish women avoided posting content online that would identify them as Jewish or reveal their views on Jewish issues, compared to 30 percent of Jewish men.
These disparities in online behavior can be further understood from the staggering frequency of antisemitism online and how often it goes unaddressed. In 2025, AJC found that 73 percent of Jewish adults reported experiencing antisemitism online or on social media, leaving 21 percent of them feeling physically threatened. Those figures rose to 85 percent among young Jewish adults who had experienced antisemitism online with 34 percent of that group feeling physically threatened. Half of those Jewish users who experienced antisemitism online told AJC that they did not report it to the platforms because they did not believe anything would be done.
The organization Fighting Online Antisemitism (FOA) found that antisemitic posts reported by their volunteers in 2025 received an average removal rate of 35 percent, though reports from FOA directly to the platforms were nearly twice as likely to lead to a post being taken down. Independent watchdog Cyberwell found that only 52.53 percent of reported antisemitic posts were removed on average across major platforms in 2025.
Online antisemitism threatens Jewish women’s safety and impedes their full participation in public and professional life. When Jewish women silence themselves online, the loss extends well beyond the individual. Their voices disappear from the public conversations that shape policy, culture and community life and from the professional networks and platforms where careers are built and leadership is exercised. The result is a public square in which Jewish women are increasingly absent, their perspectives unheard and the online space effectively ceded to those spreading the hatred.
Hadassah calls for dedicated research, greater public attention and a meaningful response from platforms, policymakers and institutions alike. Hadassah strongly recommends the following:
- Researchers, policymakers and platforms need to examine how antisemitism and misogyny converge online, and build a clearer, evidence-based understanding of the scope, forms and consequences of this hatred.
- Policymakers are encouraged to advance efforts that would hold both platforms and users accountable for antisemitic and misogynistic harassment, examine how existing civil rights protections apply and address gaps in current law that allow this hate to spread unchecked.
- Leaders and public officials are urged to speak out clearly and consistently against the targeting of Jewish women with antisemitic and misogynistic hatred and recognize it as a serious problem warranting sustained attention.